EP3466890B1 - Verfahren zur aufbereitung von abwasser aus der milchindustrie - Google Patents

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EP3466890B1
EP3466890B1 EP17194947.2A EP17194947A EP3466890B1 EP 3466890 B1 EP3466890 B1 EP 3466890B1 EP 17194947 A EP17194947 A EP 17194947A EP 3466890 B1 EP3466890 B1 EP 3466890B1
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  • the invention is in the field of the dairy industry and relates to a method for treating waste water polluted with organic load.
  • lactic acid typically: 0.03 to 0.1% by weight
  • urea typically: 0.5 to 2.0 mg / kg
  • the object of the invention was therefore to purify wastewater contaminated with lactic acid and urea and having a COD in the range of 500 and above as easily and continuously as possible to a COD less than 50 and in particular less than 10, so that the wastewater does not disposed of or clarified industrially, but can be returned directly to process steps within the dairy industry.
  • a correspondingly contaminated wastewater is first adjusted to a basic pH value with a lye, whereby lactate is precipitated. This is separated off as retentate in a first reverse osmosis, whereby the COD value is already reduced to about half of the original value.
  • the permeate which still contains urea, is adjusted to an acidic pH value by adding an inorganic acid, cooled to 2 to 10 ° C. and placed on a second reverse osmosis membrane with the same pore diameter.
  • the pH shift is a critical feature, since lactate is only precipitated in an alkaline medium; in acidic conditions, the lactate would be converted back into soluble lactic acid, while the pore constriction of the osmosis membrane requires an acidic environment.
  • the present invention specifically relates to wastewater that occurs in the course of processing milk and the production of milk products.
  • wastewater is wastewater from concentration and membrane processes, especially during the evaporation and spray drying of milk fractions and filtration steps, such as reverse osmosis, since these contain lactic acid and urea as the main organic load and are difficult to separate completely together.
  • Wastewater of this type generally has a COD value of about 500 and above, the proportion of lactic acid and urea together making up at least 90% by weight and typically about 92 to 98% by weight of the total organic load.
  • the method according to the invention described below is divided into two steps, namely the separation of the lactic acid and the separation of the urea.
  • the wastewater to be treated is first adjusted to a basic pH value, preferably in the range from about 9 to about 11 and preferably about 10, to separate the lactic acid.
  • Inorganic bases can be used for this, in particular concentrated sodium or potassium hydroxide solution, possibly also calcium hydroxide. Through this measure, the lactic acid is precipitated as sodium, potassium or calcium lactate.
  • Reverse osmosis or reverse osmosis is a physical membrane process for the concentration of substances dissolved in liquids, in which the natural osmosis process is reversed with pressure.
  • the principle of the process is that the medium in which the concentration of a certain substance is to be reduced is separated from the medium in which the concentration is to be increased by a semi-permeable membrane. This is exposed to a pressure that has to be higher than the pressure created by the osmotic desire to balance the concentration. This allows the molecules of the solvent to migrate against their "natural" osmotic direction of propagation. The process pushes them into the compartment where dissolved substances are less concentrated. Typical pressures for reverse osmosis are in the range from 3 to 30 bar (drinking water desalination) or up to 80 bar (sea water desalination).
  • the osmotic membrane which only allows the carrier liquid (solvent) through and holds back the dissolved substances (solutes), must be able to withstand these high pressures. If the pressure difference more than compensates for the osmotic gradient, the solvent molecules will fit through the membrane like a filter, while the "impurity molecules" are retained. In contrast to a classic membrane filter, osmosis membranes do not have continuous pores. Rather, the ions and molecules migrate through the membrane by diffusing through the membrane material, as described by the solution-diffusion model: the osmotic pressure increases with increasing concentration difference. If the osmotic pressure equals the applied pressure, the process comes to a standstill. There is then an osmotic equilibrium. A steady drainage of the concentrate can prevent this. At the concentrate outlet, the pressure is either controlled by a pressure regulator or used by a pressure exchanger to build up the pressure required in the system inlet.
  • the first RO step can take place both in the cold and in the heat, i.e. at a temperature in the range of about 8 to 25 ° C and preferably 10 to 12 ° C or about 25 to 55 ° C and especially 30 to 40 ° C. Temperatures around 25 ° C have proven to be particularly advantageous, since here there is a good balance between a sufficiently high flow on the one hand and low microbial load and clogging of the membrane on the other.
  • the membranes which are preferably plastic membranes, have an average pore diameter in the range from approximately 50 to approximately 500 Daltons and in particular approximately 100 to approximately 200 Daltons.
  • the method is designed to produce as little retentate as possible, so the first reverse osmosis is preferably carried out with a concentration factor in the range from approximately 10 to approximately 100 and in particular approximately 40 to 60.
  • the lactate is quantitatively retained as retentate, while the permeate already has about half of its COD load, i.e. has lost its organic load and now, based on 500, typically have COD values in the range of only 250.
  • the first permeate obtained in this way is adjusted to an acidic pH, preferably in the range from about 2 to 3.
  • Mineral acids such as hydrochloric acid or nitric acid are particularly suitable for this purpose.
  • the acidic permeate is cooled to 2 to 10 ° C, preferably about 3 to 5 ° C. This can take place, for example, in that the reverse osmosis membrane is correspondingly cooled, namely by process water from a heat exchanger step.
  • the membranes which are preferably plastic membranes, have an average pore diameter in the range from about 50 to about 500 Daltons and in particular from about 100 to about 200 Daltons and are therefore too large to retain small molecules such as urea .
  • the osmosis membranes especially those made of plastics, contract under acidic conditions and at the same time low temperature and thus now also enable quantitative separation of the urea.
  • the second reverse osmosis is also preferably carried out with a concentration factor in the range from about 10 to about 100 and in particular about 40 to 60.
  • the urea is also retained quantitatively as retentate, and a second permeate is obtained, which has a COD value of less than 50, generally from about 1 to about 10.
  • the two reverse osmosis steps can be reversed and first the urea and then the lactic acid can be separated without this having a negative effect on the final COD value achieved.
  • the wastewater treated in this way has COD values of typically 5 and is practically fresh water quality and can be reused as such in processes in the milk processing industry, for example as slide water in filtration steps or as discharge to the surface water.
  • 1,000 liters of vapor condensate from sour whey recovery with a COD value of around 500 and a lactic acid content of around 0.08% by weight and a quantity of urea of around 1 mg / kg were placed in a stirred kettle and adjusted to a pH value of 11 with sodium hydroxide solution set.
  • the solution was stirred at about 20 ° C. for about 10 minutes and then applied to a first reverse osmosis membrane (material: polydimethylsiloxane) with an average pore size of 100 daltons; the concentration factor was 40. 25 liters of lactic acid-containing retentate and 975 liters of permeate were obtained, which had a COD value of only 250.
  • the permeate was adjusted to pH 3 with hydrochloric acid in a second stirred kettle and stirred at about 20 ° C. for about 10 minutes.
  • the acidic solution was then placed on a second reverse osmosis membrane (material: PES), which also had an average pore size of 100 Dalton and had been cooled to 3 ° C. by process water from a heat exchanger step. 25 liters of urea-containing retentate and 950 liters of permeate were obtained, which still had a COD value of 5.
  • Vapor condensates from sour whey recovery with a COD value of about 500 according to Example 1 were passed through a flow pipe and continuously mixed with aqueous 50% by weight sodium hydroxide solution via a first rotor-stator mixer, so that a pH of 11 was established.
  • the basic stream was applied to a first reverse osmosis membrane (material: polydimethylsiloxane) with an average pore size of 100 Dalton; the concentration factor was 40. While the retentate was being retained, the permeate was passed on and adjusted to a pH of 3 with hydrochloric acid via a second rotor-stator mixer.
  • the acidic solution was continuously applied to a second reverse osmosis membrane (material: polydimethylsiloxane), which also had an average pore size of 100 Dalton and had been cooled to 3 ° C. by process water from a heat exchanger step. While the retentate was again retained, a clarified wastewater was continuously removed as permeate, which still had a COD value of 5.
  • a second reverse osmosis membrane material: polydimethylsiloxane

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